The Playlist of Life --- Trollheart's resurrected Journal

The Batlord · 12-14-2014, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

Beat you...

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You have a blog? Why didn't we know about this?

Trollheart · 12-14-2014, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

Beat you...

Decadent Subversion

How long have you been doing that? Well, I'm the first one to do it here anyway (mutter) why does everyone steal my thunder? (mutter)...

Pet_Sounds · 12-13-2014, 06:29 PM

Holy cow. That will be your biggest project yet. Don't have another breakdown on us!

Trollheart · 12-14-2014, 05:33 AM

In my eagerness to slag off Greg Lake, and in the excitement over the forthcoming "1001 albums" project, looks like I missed one of your presents yesterday. Better open two today then... let's see, what we got here?

Dear Briks,
Thanks for the gift of “Ujubasajuba” by Kairon;IRSE! I found it okay but not the revelation that you and Ki seem to believe it is. Mind you, instrumental or mostly instrumental post-rock albums struggle to impress me, so maybe it's just not my bag. It was good, and I enjoyed it but I couldn't see myself listening to it again, and I certainly would not feel like recommending it to anyone. It's not bad, it's just all right. But interesting certainly.
Merry Xmas!
Trollheart

Dear Ki,
Thank you for the (entirely predictable) present of Pg.lost's “Key”. I know you love this album and I have listened to it before. While it is very good, again it's instrumental post-rock (I guess) which I often find hard to retain my interest in. It's not that it's a bad album, certainly not, just I don't feel the same love and almost adoration for it that you do. But I respect it's one of your favourite, if not your favourite albums ever, and I'll give it a few more tries. Maybe it will click. For now though, I'd class it as very good, even very very good, but not lifechanging in the way it seems to have affected you.

Thanks and Merry Christmas, to you and LiL.
Trollheart

The Batlord · 12-14-2014, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Mind you, instrumental or mostly instrumental post-rock albums struggle to impress me, so maybe it's just not my bag.

Yeah, I mean, why would a prog fan like instrumental music? Seriously.

Josef K · 12-12-2014, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by mordwyr

Absolutely brilliant review! I've now added Born to Run to my queue.

You should add Darkness on the Edge of Town, Nebraska, and maybe The River as well.

I'll second (third?) what the others have said - great review, of an album I love.

Trollheart · 12-12-2014, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Josef K

You should add Darkness on the Edge of Town, Nebraska, and maybe The River as well.

I'll second (third?) what the others have said - great review, of an album I love.

Thanks man! Have to get this door widened so I can get my head through!
If anyone's interested I also reviewed Darkness and Nebraska in this journal. Just hit "search this thread" and pop the names in.

Zhanteimi · 12-13-2014, 05:38 PM

Wow! Good luck. I perused that list sometime this year and got all the albums that interested me. It's a great list!

Trollheart · 12-13-2014, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by mordwyr

Wow! Good luck. I perused that list sometime this year and got all the albums that interested me. It's a great list!

Yeah. I'm gonna attempt to listen to them all. I figure if I manage one a day I'll be through in three years...

I hope not to die before then.

WWWP · 12-13-2014, 06:04 PM

Awesome, that will certainly keep you busy. I'm interested to see what turns up!

12-13-2014, 06:29 PM	#3 (permalink)
Pet_Sounds Remember the underscore Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: The other side Posts: 2,488	Holy cow. That will be your biggest project yet. Don't have another breakdown on us! __________________ Everybody's dying just to get the disease

12-14-2014, 05:33 AM	#4 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	In my eagerness to slag off Greg Lake, and in the excitement over the forthcoming "1001 albums" project, looks like I missed one of your presents yesterday. Better open two today then... let's see, what we got here? Dear Briks, Thanks for the gift of “Ujubasajuba” by Kairon;IRSE! I found it okay but not the revelation that you and Ki seem to believe it is. Mind you, instrumental or mostly instrumental post-rock albums struggle to impress me, so maybe it's just not my bag. It was good, and I enjoyed it but I couldn't see myself listening to it again, and I certainly would not feel like recommending it to anyone. It's not bad, it's just all right. But interesting certainly. Merry Xmas! Trollheart Dear Ki, Thank you for the (entirely predictable) present of Pg.lost's “Key”. I know you love this album and I have listened to it before. While it is very good, again it's instrumental post-rock (I guess) which I often find hard to retain my interest in. It's not that it's a bad album, certainly not, just I don't feel the same love and almost adoration for it that you do. But I respect it's one of your favourite, if not your favourite albums ever, and I'll give it a few more tries. Maybe it will click. For now though, I'd class it as very good, even very very good, but not lifechanging in the way it seems to have affected you. Thanks and Merry Christmas, to you and LiL. Trollheart __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

12-13-2014, 05:38 PM	#8 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,873	Wow! Good luck. I perused that list sometime this year and got all the albums that interested me. It's a great list!